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8 | Tokyo A Japan Without Sushi? Japanese fishermen staged their largest ever one-day strike on July 15, involving some 200,000 boats, as thousands of seamen massed in Tokyo to demand curbs on soaring fuel costs. The price of heavy fuel used for fishing boats has tripled since 2003...
The food industry has long been under fire for advertising directly to children. They're an irresistibly lucrative target - children under 12 are estimated to spend more than $25 billion a year themselves, and may influence another $200 billion that is spent. But there's no doubt that some of...
For now, students themselves are becoming savvier consumers. As the industry moves toward more frequent editions of textbooks as well as ones that are tailor-made for different colleges - tactics Koch and other critics say is designed to suppress a large-scale market for used textbooks - many undergraduates are searching...
"Every single one of the cell phone companies that opposed the bill also published consumer brochures that said very explicitly, 'You should never drive while holding a cell phone to your ear,'" says Simitian.
Otherwise, there's trouble in paradise. We're facing our worst real estate meltdown since the Depression. We've got a water crisis, insurance crisis, environmental crisis and budget crisis to go with our housing crisis. We're first in the nation in mortgage fraud, second in foreclosures, last in...